An outage that was only several hours long means that what you're really doing is measuring the productivity of that part of the day
This post makes me doubt anything else haystack says
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#22A lot of assumptions about causality based on weak data here. This company is just trying to capitalize on what is perceives as an inbound marketing opportunity. Next.
What do you expect from an industry that will sell any bullshit composite metric to indicate YoY growth?
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#23The mental drain of the world exerted by social media is completely enormous. It explains so much about the dystopia we find ourselves in. What happened to the talks of breaking up Big Tech? It seems to have disappeared.
A dystopia with fewer people in poverty than ever, and the ability to communicate instantly with people around the globe, while we wander to the supermarket and buy plentiful food sourced from all over the world at prices normal people can afford, to go home and sit in climate controlled homes and entertain ourselves with endless games and have our housework eased by machines that wash our clothes and dishes with water that flows freely into our homes and doesn't need to be fetched, and we choose when our next child will be born
Yes what a dystopia we live in
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#24The mental drain of the world exerted by social media is completely enormous. It explains so much about the dystopia we find ourselves in. What happened to the talks of breaking up Big Tech? It seems to have disappeared.
I've always thought when I see one of these numbers about how people are collectively dumping millions of hours into Youtube or WoW or whatever else every day, imagine if that'd be spent on something genuinely social instead, learning, creating something, contributing something to the commons, volunteer an hour at the soup kitchen, clean the local park, however trivial. A billion hours of that every day instead of reading garbage on facebook or tiktok and I'd like to think things would look very different
goes well beyond breaking up big tech though, needs an entire reversal of culture at this point
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#25They counted pull requests merged during a few hours while Facebook was down. I’m guessing the number of PRs merged during any 5-hour window is extremely volatile, so it’s not surprising that they found it different than average when sampled randomly. This reads like someone wanted to capitalize on the Facebook outage to get some traffic, so they threw their developers under the bus for some clickbait. I wonder how g…
yea kind of tasteless. although seems to be part of their business offering, making devs more productive....
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#26And now GitHub Actions are experiencing trouble... coincidence?
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#27They counted pull requests merged during a few hours while Facebook was down. I’m guessing the number of PRs merged during any 5-hour window is extremely volatile, so it’s not surprising that they found it different than average when sampled randomly. This reads like someone wanted to capitalize on the Facebook outage to get some traffic, so they threw their developers under the bus for some clickbait. I wonder how g…
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#28I feel the downtime was too short to really extract meaningful data.
Really, it should be down for at least a month, so people can adapt, and samples can be taken over a longer time period.
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#29I don't think I'd want any pull requests from devs who still use Facebook.
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#30The mental drain of the world exerted by social media is completely enormous. It explains so much about the dystopia we find ourselves in. What happened to the talks of breaking up Big Tech? It seems to have disappeared.
I've always thought when I see one of these numbers about how people are collectively dumping millions of hours into Youtube or WoW or whatever else every day, imagine if that'd be spent on something genuinely social instead, learning, creating something, contributing something to the commons, volunteer an hour at the soup kitchen, clean the local park, however trivial. A billion hours of that every day instead of re…
It's not going to happen. People want to veg out after a hard day of work, most are not going to volunteer even if all video games and social media ended tonight.